Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

The practice of shaving or cleaning the genitals of the religious first began as did most of our recorded history in Mesopotamia. The Fertile Crescent was indeed a hot, fetid, swamp like area that led to disease and suffering in the extreme hot and humid climate. So to ensure the health and vigor of the priest hood, the pubic hair was plucked one by one from the groin of the initiates to the cult of Baal. This exposure of the scrotum for religious purposes led to the cult of the Baal sack, which lasted for many centuries and endures to this day on the West Side of Manhattan.(Clean Lips to Speak to the Lord, The History of Shaving the Religious by Titus Cleansac)

The cult of Isis in Egypt was primarily focused on women, as they were the priestess and initiates into the cult. All of their body hair was plucked out and they wore ceremonial wigs during certain rights which include certain Sapphic practices only currently found in the pages of certain men’s magazines and a few bars in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. The symbol of the cat was revered in this religion as it was the symbolic representation of the female genitalia. Thus the cat was sacred in ancient Egypt and was part of the art and architecture of one of the oldest societies to found in recorded human history. This practice continues to this day in the practice of Hello Kitty, which consist of stickers and drawings to be found on the personal possessions of practitioners of these Sapphic rites. It is how they self identify and how initiates can find each other in a discreet manner. It’s sort of like the secret handshake.(Clean Lips to Speak to the Lord, The History of Shaving the Religious by Titus Cleansac)

The monks of the middle ages were famous for shaving their heads into a tonsure, In the Roman Catholic Church this resulted in shaving the top of the head while leaving some fringe on the outside to form a “crown.” This policy lapsed in the modern era until it was revived by Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1978. As most of her act was a perversion of Roman Catholic rites, she shaved her pubes in the form of a tonsure, living a ring that highlighted her vagina. This fashion spread among the avant garde community and became part of the urban street culture. In the 70’ s or 80’s when a woman had such a pubic hair doo, she was called a “Tonsure thing” and would definitely put out. No problem.(Clean Lips to Speak to the Lord, The History of Shaving the Religious by Titus Clean)